Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/11/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The following is an excerpt of a LUGers mail. It is just one of many similar ones. > That is why I > delete most of the text I am referring to: to save bandwidth and get to the > point quickly. The reference is to the term Bandwidth. The context in which this is used is wrong. Bandwidth has nothing to do with the length of a message. A message of 2 hour length uses no more bandwidth, than a message of one second. Bandwidth has to do only with the actual speed a message is send. If a message is send with a speed of 300 baud, then the bandwidth is less than if a speed of 1200 baud is used. This is the reason, we aren't able to send messages with a speed of Mega baud's as yet over the standard telephone cable. The bandwidth is limited by the filters (intentionally or non intentionally) incorporated in the telephone network and by the amount of cross talk which is acceptable from one wire pair to the next. To use the term Bandwidth to describe a message length is incorrect. What's wrong with?:" It takes to long" Regards, Horst Schmidt >